Agricultural planting is an issue of great concern around the world. With the rising demand of people around the world, more and more planting industries can produce off-season products all year round, and some products that require constant temperature cultivation require the help of chillers.
With the demand for diversification of agricultural products, industry experts rank agricultural production as one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Due to the rapid acceleration of the market, greenhouse cultivation has become a trend with the emergence of more growers and pharmacies.
This article will provide operators of plant extraction and cultivation facilities with answers to the new innovations of using plant coolers, providing useful information on common questions that arise in improving production efficiency and profitability in the highly competitive environment of the global cultivation industry answer.
We'll start with the basics of industrial chillers for plant cultivation and then move into more technical aspects, including the types of compressors available, energy efficiency considerations, and recommended operating and maintenance protocols.
Plant cultivation chillers are high-performance systems that we can design and manufacture specifically for the unique requirements of your facility. We will produce detailed industrial flow diagrams to meet your cultivation cooling requirements.
(The picture above is the industrial diagram of the chiller cooling designed by Pengqiang for planting customers.)
There is not much difference between the types of chillers used for plants and industrial chillers used in the rubber and plastics industry. Air-cooled chillers, water-cooled chillers, screw chillers, centrifugal chillers and other chillers are used for agricultural planting. The cooling work of these machines has also been written in detail in previous articles. If you are interested, you can click to view. The biggest difference between the chillers used for planting and conventional industrial uses is the pipe routing. Each different planting greenhouse has different waterway changes. , we will draw different waterways according to the conditions on site.
Cannabis process coolers for high-volume extraction facilities have evaporators, compressors, condensers, and expansion valves as the main components. Each component has a specialized role in removing heat. The principle of heat removal is also the same as that of conventional cooling. There is no difference. You can refer to the previous article to understand the cooling principle of industrial chillers.
In addition to cooling greenhouse plants, planting industrial chillers can also perform zero cooling to extract drugs from planted herbs. It not only removes heat during the plant extraction process, making herb extraction smoother, but also provides ultra-low temperature control to ensure The liquid circulated through the chiller is kept at sub-zero temperatures to avoid denaturation and other damage to the plant extracts.
Equipping your grow greenhouse with a grow industrial chiller instead of a standard off-the-shelf comfort chiller will allow you to operate more efficiently and reliably.
For example, industrial grow chillers are designed for all-season operation (including winter) to maximize yield and performance, and even hot and cold machines can be customized to suit growing needs.
Additionally, industrial grade grow chillers for herb grow extraction allow you to achieve the ultra-low fluid temperatures required for maximum herb extraction and are capable of handling fluid temperatures as low as -20°F to -40°F. Finally, industrial-grade systems offer tighter +/-1°F temperature control to help prevent denaturation and other damage-causing fluid temperature dips.
Planting industry chillers use one of two types of high-efficiency cryogenic compressors: scroll compressors and semi-hermetic compressors.
Scroll compressors use a set of interlocking scrolls to pressurize the refrigerant inside the compressor. They are compatible with air-cooled and water-cooled systems and perform well in many sporadic operations with less than 24 hours of operation per day, and have excellent features such as high operating efficiency, smooth operation, small size and light weight, etc., conventional air cooled water cooled chillers Our company uses scroll compressors, so we often recommend scroll compressors for the cooling needs of small businesses and single equipment.
Semi-hermetic compressors are between fully hermetic compressors and semi-open compressors. They are more maintainable than scroll compressors. The casing of semi-hermetic compressors can be opened, making maintenance costs lower, while semi-hermetic compressors are more maintainable than scroll compressors. Hermetic compressors are widely used and can play a greater role in integrated cooling and heating machines. Due to the semi-hermetic structure, the leakage rate of this compressor is low, which can ensure the efficient operation of industrial chillers.
Greenhouses are generally chosen to be located outdoors in a relatively open space, which consumes more energy than the chillers used in general industrial production. Therefore, our company will recommend EC condenser fan motors, water head pressure, and pump variable frequency drives (VFD) based on customer needs. ) and electronic expansion valve (EEV) and other accessories to reduce energy consumption.
The operation of industrial chillers is less difficult than that of ordinary comfort chillers. Our company is equipped with a smart computer panel, which is clear at a glance and can be operated through the smart panel. At the same time, our industrial chillers are equipped with 6 major protection mechanisms. When there is a problem, it will prompt and alarm in time to assist you in operation.
In the same way, it is the same as maintaining an ordinary industrial chiller. The blog on our website has detailed instructions. Maintenance of an industrial chiller is very simple. As long as the chiller is not overloaded, there will be no major problems.